Minas Halaj

Minas Halaj Մինաս Հալաջ

Born	Minas Halaj (1981-11-05) November 5, 1981 Yerevan, Armenia
Nationality	Armenian
Known for	Painter

Minas Halaj (Armenian: Մինաս Հալաջյան; born November 5, 1981 in Yerevan), is an American–Armenian painter artist.

Biography

Minas Halaj was born in Yerevan, Armenia, in the family of artist Samuel Halaj.

1992–1996 Minas Halaj studied at Hakob Kojoyan Art School, Yerevan, Armenia, 1996-1998- Terlemezian College of Fine Art, Yerevan, Armenia, 1998–2002 Yerevan's State Fine Arts Academy. And 2003–2006 SFAI, San Francisco, CA. Minas Halaj works in oil, mixed media and graphics. His graphic series, entitled Magnetic Flower is a mixture of many different styles, influences and elements. He incorporates flowers, nature, animals, anatomy and Roman sculpture techniques.^[1]

Minas Halaj has got paintings from 'American Renaissance' that reflect the immigrant experience, each picture with a hallowed space that express a cry for home, the memories of place, history and culture, the violence of its loss and the rupturing of the spirit.^[2] Many of his paintings are with private collectors, including actor Jim Carrey^[3]

Exhibitions

Minas' first solo show was at the Tracy Park Gallery in Santa Monica, California. Since then he has participated in many solo and group exhibitions. His work was also showcased at the Susan Alexander Gallery and the prestigious Saatchi Gallery in the United Kingdom.

Solo Exhibitions

2015 Main Street Gallery,"Floral Minds" Walla Walla, Washington
2010 Raffsonny Gallery, Hackensack, NJ.
2008 Tracy Park Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
2007 Tracy Park Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
2006 Tracy Park Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
2005 Christianne Engs Gallery, West Hollywood, CA.
2005 Arc Light Theatre Gallery, Hollywood, CA.
2004 Donna Ratikan Design Center, Miami, FL.

Group Exhibitions

2016 SCOPE, International Contemporary Art Show, November 29-December 4, Spin Gallery's, Miami Beach, FL.
2016 International Art Symposium “Atelier An Der Donau” Vienna Austria.
2016 Art Share-LA, "Faces in the Crowd" April 2 th, DTLA Los Angeles, CA.
2016 Saatchi Art, "Fresh Faces" March 24 th Santa Monica, CA
2015 Art Miami, Art Basel Week, December 1-6, G2 Gallery, Miami ,FL.
2015 Art Miami, Aqua Art, December 2–6, Spin Gallery's , Miami, FL.
2015 Benefiz-Kunstauktion Oskar Kokoschka's Museum, Pöchlarn, Austria.
2015 Art in Fall, November 14–19 Group show New York, NY.
2014 International Art Symposium "Atelier An Der Donau", Vienna, Austria.
2014 Works on Paper "Brand 42", Brand Art Center, Glendale, CA.
2013 Saatchi Gallery Showdown "Painted Faces", London, United Kingdom.
2013 Annual Juried "Small Work Visual Show", Bakersfield Museum of Art, CA.
2012 Group Show , "Mark Rothko 109th Anniversary" , Dunaburg, Latvia
2012 Group Show, Pier #92, New York, NY.
2012 Art from the Ashes, Barnsdall Gallery Hollywood CA.
2012 Art Cube Gallery, Laguna Beach CA
2011 El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument, LA, CA.
2011 Los Angeles Municipal art Gallery, LA, CA.
2011 Skinner Howard Contemporary Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA.
2010 Rweeway Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2010 Western Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2010 Art from the Ashes Gallery, Glendale, CA.
2009 Primo Piano LivinGallery, Lecce, Italy
2009 Italian American Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.
2009 Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2009 Primo Piano LivinGallery, Lecce, Italy.
2008 Brand Gallery OST, Glendale, CA.
2008 Tracy Park Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
2007 1–5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2007 Italian American Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.
2007 Venice Contemporary, Culver City, CA.
2006 Tracy Park Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
2006 Museum of Modern Art, Yerevan, Armenia.
2004 Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA.

Quotes

I still remember the magic of my first encounter with the paintbrush and the easel. I consider myself the luckiest of all to have been given the gift of creation and I live and work through the appreciation of divinity of art.
I love all styles; I can work in all styles. The medium is not the important thing, the meaning is the important element, the medium is secondary," he explains. "What you are trying to say is the important thing.
The power of art is to talk with your language. You need to be able to create your own language to speak to people," he says. "We all speak in our language, that is the meaning of art.

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